Cybercrime – big in Asia Pacific

July 18, 2023 TH Author

Sponsored Post Kroll’s latest State of Incident Response: APAC report suggests that over half of all organizations in Asia Pacific (59 percent) have experienced a cyber incident, of which a third (32 percent) have suffered multiple incidents.

In Japan alone, reports suggest the number of cybercrimes detected by the country’s National Police Agency hit a record high in 2022, with high profile incidents such as the supply chain attack on Kojima Industries in February highlighting the problem.

Yet Kroll’s research indicates that 36 percent of the Asia Pacific organizations it surveyed appear not to have an incident response plan to mitigate and neutralize threats in place should incidents occur, which leaves them vulnerable to further attacks, predicts the company.

And at the same time, 60 percent of organizations in the Asia Pacific region continue to report with a significant shortage of cyber security professionals, a collective skills gap estimated at 2.16 million according to a study released by ISC2.

The SANS Asia Pacific Digital Forensic & Incident Response (DFIR) Summit will be held on the 7-8^th September in local Japanese time. This virtual event will feature speakers from across the Asia Pacific including Australia, Singapore and Korea offering expert advice on the latest open source forensic tools available while revealing the methods and strategies which have already proved successful in real world investigations. The event will also be simultaneously translated into Japanese.

There will be more than 20 talks to choose from to help you further build your knowledge. Attendees also get to engage in interactive chats with their peers, speakers and SANS staff to help with any burning DFIR-related questions.

Streamed from Tokyo, this will be the first DFIR Summit to be held in the Asia Pacific region, and all the available sessions will be translated into Japanese. The event will be followed by a program of closely aligned training courses the following week.

These are hands-on, immersive courses taught by SANS instructions, with new DFIR focused elements including:

FOR500: Windows Forensic Analysis
FOR508: Advanced Incident Response, Threat Hunting, and Digital Forensics
FOR572: Advanced Network Forensics: Threat Hunting, Analysis, and Incident Response
FOR710: Reverse-Engineering Malware: Advanced Code Analysis
ICS515: ICS Visibility, Detection, and Response

You can find out more and register to attend the 2023 Asia Pacific DFIR Summit by clicking this link.

Sponsored by SANS.